T-Mobile US Says Personal Data of Nearly 50 Million Customers Breached

The U.S. subsidiary of German telecommunications company T-Mobile said Wednesday that the personal data of more than 40 million former and prospective customers — including names, Social Security numbers and driver's license information — had been exposed in a data breach.

In a statement, the cellphone service said the same data were also compromised for about 7.8 million current T-Mobile postpaid customers. But they added that no phone numbers, account numbers, personal identification numbers, passwords or financial information from the nearly 50 million records and accounts had been compromised. T-Mobile also confirmed that about 850,000 of its active prepaid customer names, phone numbers and account PINs had been exposed. The company said it had proactively reset all the PINs on those accounts. It said Metro by T-Mobile, Boost and former Sprint prepaid customers did not have their names or PINs exposed. Experts brought in